SCOPE AND LEGAL ASPECTS OF NURSING

Question 1

Scope of Nursing. - A person shall be deemed to be practicing nursing within the meaning of this Act when he/she singly or in collaboration with another, initiates and
performs nursing services to individuals, families and communities in any health care
setting.

Answer 1

RA 9173, Section 28

Question 2

Nursing, as a profession, has established standards of behaviors that govern the practice

Answer 2

Code of Ethics

Question 3

Serve as guidelines to assist nurses when conflict or disagreement arises about correct practice or behvaior.

Answer 3

Codes

Question 4

Prior to 1984, which code was followed by Filipino Nurses?

Answer 4

Code by the International Council for Nurses

Question 5

True or False: in 1982, the PNA Special Committee developed a Code of Ethics for Filipino Nurses but was not implemented

Answer 5

True

Question 6

In 1984, the ___ adopted the Code of Ethics of the ICN

Answer 6

Board of Nursing

Question 7

In what year did the PRC approved the Code promulgated by the PNA?

Answer 7

1989

Question 8

When did a new code of ethics for Filipino Nurses get adopted under RA 9173?

Answer 8

July 14, 2004

Question 9

RA 9173 is also known as

Answer 9

Philippine Nursing Act of 2002

Question 10

The first law that had to do with the practice of nursing. Provided for the examination and registration of nurses in the Philippine Islands

Answer 10

Act No 2493

Question 11

In 1919, this was passed, also known as the First True Nursing Law. It created among others a board of examiners for nurses.

Answer 11

Act 2808

Question 12

When was the Philippine Nursing Law - RA 877 passed?

Answer 12

June 19, 1953

Question 13

This act regulated the practice of nursing in the Philippines

Answer 13

Philippine Nursing Law - RA 877

Question 14

Designated the last week of October every year beginning 1958 as Nurses’ week

Answer 14

Proclamation No. 539

Question 15

A few changes under RA 877 were made, which included:

• scope of nursing practice was broadened
• minimum age requirement of applicants lowered from 21 to 18

Answer 15

RA 4704

Question 16

Introduced by Sen. Heherson Alvarez, this revised all the laws regulating the practice of nursing in the Philippines. Also known as the Philippine Nursing Act of 1991

Answer 16

RA 7164

Question 17

When did RA 9173 replace RA 7164?

Answer 17

October 21, 2002

Question 18

Refers to the execution of duties associated with a nurse’s particular role

Answer 18

Responsibility

Question 19

Refers to the ability to answer for one’s own actions.

Answer 19

Accountability

Question 20

An obligation one has incurred or might incur through any act or failure to act

Answer 20

Liability

Question 21

The commission or omission of an act, pursuant to a duty, that a reasonably prudent person in the same or similar circumstances would or would not do, and acting or the non-acting is the proximate cause of injury to another person or his property

Answer 21

Negligence

Question 22

Implies the idea of improper or unskillful care of a patient by a nurse

Answer 22

Malpractice

Question 23

True or False: Nurses cannot perform complex intravenous therapy procedures.

Answer 23

False - According to Philippine Nursing Act of 1991 Section 28, nurses were given the legal right to give intravenous injections.

Question 24

True or False: If it was not charted, it was not observed or done.

Answer 24

True